Seen the goals, thought Dummigan was massively at fault on both the 3rd and 4th. 3rd goal his positioning is poor and he is caught flat footed by the pass, the ball should never have been able to make it to his man in such a way. He neither covered the space behind or got tight enough to make the pass difficult. 4th goal we got a bit of luck with the crossbar, if Dummigan threw himself at that bouncing ball and got his head on it the lead would have been preserved - waiting for the ball to come down so you can volley it away with it on the goal line is diabolical really. Disappointing goals to concede and completely avoidable but a good point nonetheless. Genuinely didn't feel there was a huge amount Placide could have done about any of them other than being a little wrong footed by the first as he ran back across goal.
This is exactly my point, the introduction of rules such as 'being out of control' has sanitised the game and kills excitement. I blame the watered pitch personally, on a dry pitch he wouldn't have slid nearly as far and maintained 'control'. When AI is good enough, maybe we'll replace human players with robots with entertainment set to 0.
I think a big problem is the rules change every season. Not to defend what is quite frankly awful refereeing but the game as it is now is not the game I grew up with 20 years ago - can't imagine what it's like to older fans. FIFA and the governing bodies are ripping the soul out of the game whether that be because of commercial pressure (read 'greedy fuckers filling their pockets') to protect players from injury or just genuine incompetence they are a cancer on the sport.
That sending off - if you pause it as Doyle goes past the lad;
1. The ball is there to be won
2. Doyle's leading foot never leaves the floor
3. Doyle's leading foot makes no contact at all with the man
4. It's debatable whether even Doyle's trailing foot (also grounded, studs pointing away) make any contact with the man
5. The above leaves a grown man rolling about on the floor holding his shin despite wearing shin guards and not being hit on his shin.
If sending Doyle off for this is the correct application of the laws of the game, the game is absurd.